Gualdo Tadino, the vital economic
centre in which from centuries are produced ceramics worked of thin
quality

For centuries at Gualdo Tadino generations of artisans are handed from father to child the precious secret
that have driven in the years their wise hands in the art of work the ceramics.
The ceramics of Gualdo Tadino are not as the others, they have never been as
the others, but they are always distinguished for their decorations, for the
wealth of the ornaments, for the hulling of the finishes. This has been
possible thanks to an extraordinary technique of workmanship used by the
artisan of Gualdo and unknown to all the others. This extraordinary technique
allowed them to work the ceramics applying decorations made of precious metals
as gold and silver to the manufactured articles, getting so an amazing and
effect such to arouse admiration, as much in the past centuries, as today. The
art to work the ceramics is testified in Gualdo Tadino beginning from the XIII
century, but traces of the workmanship of the majolica are had even in
prehistoric epoch. As always happens the traditions have deep roots and, if
cultivated, they never stop giving marvellous fruits. At Gualdo Tadino this
tradition is still alive and present in the whole city, as it shows the active
and profitable local production. Further to be famous in Italy and in
the world, the ceramic of Gualdo receive the correct celebration in the two
permanent exhibitions devoted to them, the Umbrian Ceramic Centre and
the Gallery of Modern Ceramic art, entirely devoted to the local
production.

The artistic vocation of the city is
exalted every year in the International Contest of the Ceramics, where
numerous artists coming from different countries meet to create rich
manufactured articles, precious and original, collected in an exposure that
shows the evolution of the modern art of the workmanship of the ceramics.

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